TEDxSadovoeRing is a part of the world-wide TEDx platform, licensed under TED, which has been uniting people under the notion of the Ideas Worth Spreading for 30 years.

TEDxSadovoeRing is an independently organized TED event taking place on the 2nd of July, 2014 in Moscow (Scriabin Museum House). The speakers are people, whose experience and knowledge are worth sharing - respected and recognized scientists, businessmen and artists.

Speakers

A leading neuroeconomics and neurobiological basis of social influence expert
• International neuroeconomic community member
• Dean of the High Economics School Psychology faculty
On TEDxSadovoeRing Vasily will share his ideas on why evolution has made people conformists, though it leads to some dramatic consequences in the modern promptly changing world.

Creative Entrepreneur
• British Higher School of Design professor
• Founder of the design-thinking laboratory Wonderful
• Philosopher
• Genuine empath
On TEDxSadovoeRing Maria will talk about the difficulties and stereotypes modern women have to face in business and suggest how to fight those. Empathy and sensitivity to the nearest can change the world.

Consulting company TechInvestLab president • Russian INCOSE office president • Systems approach ideologist and methodologist Anatoly learned from his own experience that one shouldn’t search for system architects, engineers and general designers among talented experts, but raise them consciously. And he is going to reveal how in his TEDxSadovoeRing presentation.

Founder and director general of the bioinformatics company iBinom
• The Intel Global Challenge competition finalist
• The first Moscow Science Slam winner
On TEDxSadovoeRing Andrey will explain why bioinformatics is worth being engaged in for physics, mathematicians and programmers and how processing hundreds of gigabytes of data helps save lives.

Englishman, co-founder of Impact Hub Moscow and of various social projects in Russia, will share his experience of living in Russia and discusses why everyone needs to spend some time as an outsider, whether at home or abroad.